3)
Locate the two 3/16 balsa fuselage sides, the
1/16 plywood fuselage doublers, and formers F1
and F2. Start by gluing the doublers to the
fuselage sides using 15 minute epoxy glue. Center
the doublers vertically on the balsa sides. You may
notice that the doublers are approximately 1/64”
narrower than the balsa sides on the top and
bottom of the doubler. This is normal. You can
use one of the lite-ply formers to align the slots of
the doubler to the slots in the sides but DO NOT glue any formers in place yet! Also notice that the doubler does
not go all the way to the forward edge of the fuselage side. This was purposely designed this way to
automatically align the firewall in a later step.
4)
Decide which side of the fuselage you want the
rudder servo to be on. It does not matter but on the
prototype it is installed on the left side. Remove
the servo filler plug from the tail card sheet and
glue it into the servo cut out hole on the side you
DO NOT want the servo to be on. Use thin 'CA'
glue. You will need to just barely round off the
four corners of the plug.
5)
Epoxy the rudder servo mount in place on the
inside
of the other fuselage side (the same side the
fuselage doubler is on). Simply align the
horizontal edges of the mount with the horizontal
edges of the cut out in the fuselage side. Ensure
the 2 holes for the servo mounting ears are
centered, fore and aft, in the fuselage cut out when
viewed from the
outside
of the fuselage side ( i.e.
the other side of what is shown in this photo). You
do not want the servo mounting holes to be
covered up by the balsa sides.
NOTE:
see step 37
on page 15 for a picture of what this looks like from the 'outside'.
6)
Locate lite-ply formers F-1 and F-2 and the birch plywood lower pylon
support and dry assemble the former cage as shown in the photo. DO NOT glue
any of these parts together!
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